OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Sociological Methods & Research is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-06-01 to 2026-06-01.)

Article	Citations
Sample Selection Matters: Moving Toward Empirically Sound Qualitative Research	150
Linear Probability Model Revisited: Why It Works and How It Should Be Specified	88
From Strange to Normal: Computational Approaches to Examining Immigrant Incorporation Through Shifts in the Mainstream	51
Elucidating the Social – Developing Social Process Tracing as an Integrative Framework	44
Rationale and Methodologies for Surveying Vulnerable Neighborhoods: Lessons From Three Nordic Countries	34
Handle with Care: A Sociologist’s Guide to Causal Inference with Instrumental Variables	29
Large Language Models for Text Classification: From Zero-Shot Learning to Instruction-Tuning	25
Measuring Social and Political Identities in Social Media Self-Descriptions	24
Cheap Learning: Maximizing Performance of Language Models for Social Data Science Using Minimal Data	22
Inequality of Opportunity, Income Mobility, and the Interpretation of Intergenerational Elasticities, Correlations, and Rank-Rank Slopes	21
Suspicion During Fieldwork: Lessons From Ethnographers Suspected of Espionage	19
From Text Signals to Simulations: A Review and Complement to Text as Data by Grimmer, Roberts & Stewart (PUP 2022)	18
Examining Variation in Survey Costs Across Surveys	18
The Integration of Bayesian Regression Analysis and Bayesian Process Tracing in Mixed-Methods Research	16
Is There a Mobility Effect? On Methodological Issues in the Mobility Contrast Model	15
A Sample Size Formula for Network Scale-up Studies	15
From Codebooks to Promptbooks: Extracting Information from Text with Generative Large Language Models	14
Fieldwork Disrupted: How Researchers Adapt to Losing Access to Field Sites	13
The Mixed Subjects Design: Treating Large Language Models as Potentially Informative Observations	13
Social Mobility as Causal Intervention	13
Lagged Dependent Variable Predictors, Classical Measurement Error, and Path Dependency: The Conditions Under Which Various Estimators are Appropriate	12
The Rise in Occupational Coding Mismatches and Occupational Mobility, 1991–2020	12
Machine Learning as a Model for Cultural Learning: Teaching an Algorithm What it Means to be Fat	12
Causal Inference for Latent Markov Models Using the Parametric G-Formula	12
Generative Multimodal Models for Social Science: An Application with Satellite and Streetscape Imagery	12

Networks Beyond Categories: A Computational Approach to Examining Gender Homophily	11
Biased Processing and Opinion Polarization: Experimental Refinement of Argument Communication Theory in the Context of the Energy Debate	11
Beyond Proximity: Investigating Crime With Organic Neighborhoods and a Two-Stage Unsupervised Learning Approach	11
Data Imbalances in Coincidence Analysis: A Simulation Study	11
Benefits of a Pragmatic Approach: Rethinking Measurement Invariance and Composite Scores in Cross-Cultural Research	10
Treatment Effect on the Association Between Outcomes	10
Methodological Frontiers in Intergenerational Mobility Research	9
Sampling in Video-Based Social Sciences	9
Machines Do See Color: Using LLMs to Classify Overt and Covert Racism in Text	9
Challenges in Multilevel Modelling: Cross-Group Measurement Noninvariance and Measurement Errors. A Monte Carlo Simulation Study	9
Quantifying Narrative Similarity Across Languages	8
Occupational Percentile Rank: A New Method for Constructing a Socioeconomic Index of Occupational Status	8
3D Social Research: Analysis of Social Interaction Using Computer Vision	8
The Sociological Power of Methodological Rhetoric	8
Theoretical Foundations and Limits of Word Embeddings: What Types of Meaning can They Capture?	7
When to Use Counterfactuals in Causal Historiography: Methods for Semantics and Inference	7
Life-Course-Sensitive Analysis of Group Inequalities: Combining Sequence Analysis With the Kitagawa–Oaxaca–Blinder Decomposition	7
Curating Training Data for Reliable Large-Scale Visual Data Analysis: Lessons from Identifying Trash in Street View Imagery	7
Assessing the Impact of the Great Recession on the Transition to Adulthood	6
Geographic Variation in Multigenerational Mobility	6
Simulating Subjects: The Promise and Peril of Artificial Intelligence Stand-Ins for Social Agents and Interactions	6
A Tool Kit for Relation Induction in Text Analysis	5
Simulation-Based Sensitivity Analysis in Optimal Treatment Regimes and Causal Decomposition With Individualized Interventions	5
Generalized Intergenerational Mobility Regressions	5
Monitoring Attitudes Over Time: Real Change or the Result of Repeated Interviewing?	5
An Optimal Stratification Method for Addressing Nonresponse Bias in Bayesian Adaptive Survey Design	5
What Good is Qualitative Literacy Without Data Transparency?	5
Improving Cross-Cultural Comparability of Measures on Gender and Age Stereotypes by Means of Piloting Methods	5
Correcting the Measurement Errors of AI-Assisted Labeling in Image Analysis Using Design-Based Supervised Learning	5
Two-sample Age-period-cohort Models	4
Age, Period, and Cohort Analysis With Bounding and Interactions	4
Locating Cultural Holes Brokers in Diffusion Dynamics Across Bright Symbolic Boundaries	4
Measuring Class Hierarchies in Postindustrial Societies: A Criterion and Construct Validation of EGP and ESEC Across 31 Countries	4
The Insight-Inference Loop: Efficient Text Classification via Natural Language Inference and Threshold-Tuning	4
A Method for Estimating Individual Socioeconomic Status of Twitter Users	4
Deceptively Approachable: Translating Standards in Qualitative Research	3
Addressing Missingness in Serialized Bureaucratic Data: The Case of Chinese Courts	3
Current and Future Debates in Video Data Analysis	3
Absolute and Relative Mobility: Two Frameworks for Connecting Intergenerational Mobility in Absolute and Relative Terms	3
An Exploration of the Presence of Positive-Results Bias in Qualitative Comparative Analysis	3
A Bayesian Semi-Parametric Approach for Modeling Memory Decay in Dynamic Social Networks	3
Deep Learning With DAGs	3
Graphical Causal Models for Survey Inference	3
The Augmented Social Scientist: Using Sequential Transfer Learning to Annotate Millions of Texts with Human-Level Accuracy	3
Untapped Potential: Designed Digital Trace Data in Online Survey Experiments	3
Social Rigidity Across and Within Generations: A Predictive Approach	3
The Unrealized Potential of Audits: Applicant-Side Inequalities in Effort, Opportunities, and Certainty	3